Chapter 188 Xie Jiaoyue was very self-aware…
Xie Jiaoyue was very self-aware. Even though she had suddenly taken on the title of clan leader, she understood that she had no say in the current situation.
She then had time to carefully observe Gong Shifei, and then whispered to Xie in black.
It's not normal for the government to publicly punish bandits.
Based on her impressions from her several encounters with Gongshi Feifei, it's clear that Gongshi Feifei is a hypocrite and stubborn person, and shouldn't have confessed to all his crimes so easily.
It was too easy, too casual. We weren't in a hopeless situation yet, we still had a chance to struggle. Not long ago, we were even trying to negotiate with her. How did we suddenly end up in this situation?
Although I was happy to win, I always felt that the victory was not real.
Even though the two were not familiar with each other, Xie in black had no doubts about Xie Jiaoyue's suspicions. He used his spiritual power, spiritual sense, and magic treasures to investigate again and again.
No results were found.
"It's possible that there are secret techniques that I'm unaware of."
Xie Jiaoyue was a little touched. After several attempts failed to find the problem, she didn't suspect it was Xie Jiaoyue's fault, but instead thought that she had failed to detect it.
This person trusts her too much.
I feel really embarrassed.
If this question can't be resolved, she doesn't have many questions left.
I'm mainly curious, what about Chu Xingjin?
When Gongshi Feifei "surrendered" himself, he clearly pointed out that Chu Xingjin was also involved in everything and even wanted to "enjoy" Gongshi Yue. Under such circumstances, how could Chu Xingjin, as the Son of Heaven, possibly struggle?
Chu Xingjin actually showed up.
He appeared behind the clan leader.
Chu Xingjin stood with his hands at his sides, looking obedient and well-behaved, just like a disciple of the Wan family, the kind that had been carefully cultivated.
Chief Wan stroked his beard and patted Chu Xingjin on the shoulder with satisfaction: "Xingjin has already told me that he got involved himself just to uncover the evil deeds committed by the Gongshi clan."
He looked completely confident, as if he already knew everything before Gongshi Feifei's self-destruction.
Xie Jiaoyue rolled her eyes speechlessly.
And indeed, this person continued his career, jumping from the Gongshi clan to the Wan clan, truly rising step by step.
She didn't believe Chu Xingjin hadn't been involved in those things, otherwise Chu Xingjin's cultivation level couldn't have improved so rapidly.
This is the protagonist, enjoying all the benefits while remaining untainted by any scandal.
It's both enviable and disgusting.
Couldn't Heaven choose a better person to be the Son of Heaven?
...
Because Xie Jiaoyue broke the bracelet, it was tantamount to expressing her desire to leave the trial grounds. Even though Xie in black tried her best to persuade everyone to let her return to the trial grounds, they ultimately failed.
In the end, she had about a day less time to kill enemies than others, but she had more points from Gongshi Chuo's contributions. When calculating the total score, she ranked sixth, one point behind Chu Xingjin.
It just so happened that Chu Xingjin made it into the top five and obtained the extraordinary wealth that only the top five could receive.
Xie Jiaoyue wanted to applaud this wonderful arrangement.
Xie, dressed in black, comforted her, "Don't be sad. Those rewards are worthless. They're just cultivation opportunities. Our Xie family has no shortage of such things."
There was a shortage of resources, but after years of war, the Xie family has been wiped out, and now there are hardly any left. Even the direct bloodline is almost extinct, and we don't know who to give the resources to.
To be precise, there is only Xie in black here right now.
He guarded this place alone, hoping for the return of one of his people.
As Xie, dressed in black, comforted Xie Jiaoyue, he was leading her to the Xie clan's territory, showing her the land he had protected.
The Xie family's house is very large, and it appears even larger because it is empty.
Unlike other aristocratic families, it has no luxurious buildings or ingenious pavilions and towers. Everything is quite simple and unadorned. There are many rare and precious materials, but they all look like they are stored in a warehouse. There is no carving or decoration, and everything is practical.
It looks like the style of a family with a history of fighting.
As Xie walked, he introduced Xie Jiaoyue, his eyes and voice filled with affection: "The Xie clan's patriarchs throughout the ages have all been sword cultivators, and the elders and guest elders are also primarily sword cultivators, with some magic cultivation as well. They have also practiced alchemy and weapon cultivation, but their ability to kill enemies is still somewhat weak, so they have basically all supplemented their cultivation with swordsmanship."
"The sword at the entrance was once the sword of the first clan chief."
Xie Jiaoyue looked in that direction and saw a dented sword, covered in signs of battle. It was much longer than a normal sword and lay across the hilt. Even from a distance, she could smell the stench of blood.
"The Xie family did not rise to prominence as early as the other families. It was after magical beasts had begun to appear on the continent that the clan leader fought his way from a small village to the source of the magical beasts on the continent. He single-handedly sealed the initial point where the two worlds met, and then became famous in one battle."
"I heard that at first, he just wanted to protect his hometown."
"This is the sword of the second clan chief. She preferred to use short swords because she found them light, less tiring to use, and easier to kill a few more monsters."
The already short sword was broken, making it look even shorter, with the blade almost invisible and only a small part of the hilt remaining.
The hilt of the sword is undecorated, with only a solitary tassel covered with transparent glass, which has remained intact for many years.
“That was a gift from the clan leader’s partner. Her partner died young, and that was her only keepsake.”
Xie, dressed in black, introduced them one by one. Although he didn't talk about the lives of his predecessors at all, the broken swords, almost unrecognizable from their original state, spoke volumes.
Every chieftain died in battle against monsters; their lives were truly dedicated to protecting the entire continent.
Even other Heavenly-level families were far less extreme than the Xie family, to the point that the entire family was almost wiped out. Therefore, when the Xie family no longer met the requirements of a Heavenly-level family, and when Xie the Black-Clad supported the Xie family as a guest elder, the other families still tacitly accepted it.
When the penultimate clan chief was introduced, Xie, dressed in black, stepped forward and plucked the green grass from the grave one by one.
"She didn't even leave behind her natal magic weapon, so I had to build her a cenotaph and come to visit from time to time so that she knows there are still people alive in the cultivation world."
There are many female clan leaders in the Xie clan, and this is one of them.
Xie, dressed in black, said with a hint of melancholy, "In that great battle, the clan leader died, and his only daughter was seriously injured and went missing. I searched for her for many years, thinking that she was just recuperating somewhere and wouldn't be able to come back. I never imagined that she really didn't want to come back."
“I made a promise with her that she would return to inherit the position of clan leader after a hundred years, but I never expected that after a hundred years, she would be even less willing to come back.”
It sounds like this person who doesn't want to come back is the Xie clan patriarch from the Southwest Region.
Xie Jiaoyue asked curiously, "Why doesn't she want to come back?"
Xie, dressed in black, was equally puzzled: "She said she has no talent for cultivation and cannot shoulder the burden of a Heavenly-level family, so she doesn't want to come back."
"I don't believe it. I think that because she has a Daoist partner, she has focused all her attention on him and doesn't want to care about the Xie family. She just wants to stay in the Southwest Region."
He looked sad: "She even dispersed her cultivation in order not to come back, and now she is only at the early stage of the Golden Core realm."
"Oh right, it was she who instructed you to take over the position of clan leader." Xie in black grabbed Xie Jiaoyue's sleeve, as if afraid that Xie Jiaoyue would run away too.
Xie Jiaoyue looked at Xie in black and analyzed through the veil that this person truly believed what the ancestor said.
Don't you want to come back? The Ancestor must have had a Daoist partner, otherwise there wouldn't be the Xie Clan in the Southwest Region, but she has never seen this person before, perhaps he has already passed away.
As far as she knew, any method of actively retreating from cultivation was based on a somewhat immoral logic.
The old ancestor doesn't seem like that kind of person.
Since he left injured, it's likely that his cultivation level couldn't recover from that injury, which is why he remained at the early stage of the Golden Core realm.
She took out the psychic artifact, having already left the trial grounds, and was finally able to contact other people normally.
The Mirror of Spirits does indeed contain the ancestor's contact information.
"Ancestor, are you there?"
The ancestor did not return.
Xie Jiaoyue directly asked her question.
"Is it inappropriate for a Heavenly-level aristocratic family to have a patriarch at the Golden Core stage?"
The ancestor replied with just two concise and startling words.
"Shameful."
Two more words appeared.
"Practice quickly."
Good grief, if you can't do it yourself, you'll just use others as pawns, what a cunning move.
After introducing the successive clan leaders, Xie, dressed in black, finally began to explain just how much the Xie clan had accumulated that Xie Jiaoyue could use.
"This is all related to healing, including books, elixirs, and many special items I found while traveling around. Here, this can be wrapped around the wound to temporarily suppress the pain and maintain combat strength."
Goodness, pain-relieving plasterboard.
"And this, tied to the severed arm, is used to manipulate the sword."
"This, when tied to the short leg, allows the person to move normally."
The Xie family has a truly rich and diverse range of medical resources.
Xie, dressed in black, said with great resentment, "You know, Xie family disciples are very easy to get injured."
Today was the first time he removed his veil.
Xie Jiaoyue couldn't help but look up. The face was barely recognizable, with scars layered upon scars, and the brow bone was somewhat deformed. The few areas of skin without scars were pitted and uneven, like the surface of the moon, as if they had been corroded by sulfuric acid.
A face so horribly disfigured can stop a child from crying at night.
"You know, demonic energy is corrosive, and sometimes it's hard to notice, which leads to these things being left behind. Typhoid caused by demonic energy is difficult to repair, and it will just stay like this over time."
In order to maintain the Xie clan, he had to kill too many demonic beasts. At first, it was okay when the other disciples were still alive, but the great battle that year almost destroyed the entire Xie clan. Everyone except him was injured, and later some died and some left. His injuries also increased.
But thanks to the blessings of successive clan leaders, all his injuries were external and healed easily, though they left scars.
To avoid frightening timid children, Xie, dressed in black, always wore a veil.
Over time, the veil has become a part of him.
He observed Xie Jiaoyue carefully for a while, and only continued after confirming that her expression was normal: "Since the death of the former clan leader and the disappearance of the young master, the other disciples have also left one by one. I always think that if I could find more powerful spiritual herbs and more skilled medical practitioners, could I still save some people?"
"So, at least I won't be the only one left here?"
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